"increasing the application" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an effort to make more of something, like people or processes applying for something. For example: The college is looking to increase the application rate from low-income students by offering more financial aid.
Commander Carpenter and officials from the other academies pointed to intensified marketing campaigns in recent years that they say played a major role in increasing the application pool.
He assured Australians that the Turnbull government had strengthened controls on foreign investment, including increasing the application fees for foreign investors buying real estate, lowering the screening threshold for agricultural foreign investments from $252m to $15m, and putting a $55m threshold on investments in agribusiness.
In general, increasing the application rates of filter cake increased dry biomass.
Both ways are acceptable, however, when data size is increasing, the application processing becomes a major bottleneck.
The horizontal water advance increased while the vertical water advance was reduced markedly by increasing the application rate.
Unlike the iron and zinc elements, increasing the application of CR in different amounts had no significant effect on increasing copper content in all treatments.
UBS is a Spatial-TDMA- (STDMA-) based dynamic channel access scheduling scheme designed with the aim of increasing the application-level throughput.
New fluorescent dyes are also available, increasing the applications for confocal microscopy.
With increasing the applications of lead-acid batteries, the demand for efficient, low resistant and inexpensive batteries has increased drastically.
Most importantly, our work with AUB has helped to increase the application rate to the university by over 11%.
By contrast, repeated applications would largely increase the application costs due to a higher dosage and additional workload.
